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Stagecraft: NEA project focuses on producing new plays
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Published: June 17, 2008
The National Endowment for the Arts is kicking in $280,000 for the development and production of new plays during the next 2½ years.
The NEA New Play Development Program has $90,000 each available for two scripts which must be already written and attached to theater companies planning to stage their world premieres by the end of 2010.
And there's $20,000 each for five plays that are at a germinal stage, where a writer and theater company need money to work on an idea, without a full commitment to a production.
The playwrights must be American citizens or permanent U.S. residents, and the theaters must be nonprofit.
The NEA says that almost any theatrical style is eligible.
"Ensemble plays, solo plays, plays with music, plays with puppets, plays with movement, plays with multimedia -- the theater in America is a "big tent,' " according to the application guidelines.
The Arena Stage in Washington is coordinating the project and wants to hear from interested writer-and-theater teams by Friday.
Another NEA play-development program, which finances playwright residencies at theaters, expires in 2009.
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